mscroggs.co.uk

mscroggs.co.uk

blog puzzles academic talks contact subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.

2019-12-09

Is it correct that the rules allow for all four inhabitants to be lying about everything?

Jonathan
on /blog/69

2019-12-10

@Jonathan: Yes, they could all be lying. But one might contradict another at some point to make this impossible...

Matthew
on /blog/69

2019-12-12

@Matthew: If an inhabitant is a liar, do they always lie?

(anonymous)
on /blog/69

2019-12-12

@(anonymous): Yes. Every islander will either always tell the truth or always lie.

Matthew
on /blog/69

Archive

Show me a random blog post

2024

Feb 2024

Jan 2024

Christmas (2023) is over

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

Tags

royal baby zines final fantasy asteroids rhombicuboctahedron map projections trigonometry mathsteroids datasaurus dozen signorini conditions probability hannah fry boundary element methods national lottery reddit craft hexapawn football polynomials reuleaux polygons propositional calculus determinants fence posts stickers turtles dragon curves geogebra frobel matrix of cofactors countdown platonic solids logic gather town pythagoras graph theory fonts quadrilaterals anscombe's quartet machine learning rugby folding paper mean estimation matrices error bars noughts and crosses electromagnetic field inline code london christmas card big internet math-off sorting weak imposition programming talking maths in public recursion runge's phenomenon captain scarlet braiding palindromes databet christmas crochet accuracy correlation numerical analysis data mathslogicbot speed graphs hyperbolic surfaces games binary martin gardner approximation european cup plastic ratio gerry anderson a gamut of games php chalkdust magazine data visualisation wave scattering cambridge numbers curvature realhats puzzles people maths harriss spiral news flexagons 24 hour maths finite group bubble bobble triangles hats mathsjam standard deviation folding tube maps squares ternary advent calendar phd world cup preconditioning wool crossnumber draughts dataset sobolev spaces pi approximation day video games chebyshev live stream weather station raspberry pi convergence go arithmetic pizza cutting cross stitch inverse matrices gaussian elimination misleading statistics bempp statistics tmip chess pac-man matrix of minors logo game show probability edinburgh sport newcastle golden spiral the aperiodical nine men's morris stirling numbers latex computational complexity youtube guest posts menace pascal's triangle coins logs ucl fractals finite element method tennis manchester science festival interpolation dates simultaneous equations matt parker radio 4 javascript geometry game of life manchester oeis books exponential growth pi sound python light london underground matrix multiplication golden ratio bodmas errors royal institution dinosaurs

Archive

Show me a random blog post
▼ show ▼

© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2024